Month: August 2019

Associate University Librarian for Collection Services and Technologies at DePaul University

DePaul University is recruiting an Associate University Librarian for Collection Services and Technologies.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Associate University Librarian for Collection Services and Technologies is responsible for oversight of the information technology, technical, and collection development operations of the University Library, including: information technology applications and services, acquisition and description of library collections, access and management of library collections (including e-resource lifecycle management), digital content creation, description, curation, and integration of digital content into consortial discovery systems.

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Assistant Director for Library Technology at The New School

The New School is recruiting an Assistant Director for Library Technology.

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Reporting to the Director of the Digital Library and Technical Services, the Assistant Director for Library Technology makes recommendations and provides advice to senior library leadership for the New School Libraries and Archives in support of faculty and student teaching, learning, research, and scholarship. This position is charged with overseeing a department that enables a seamless experience with libraries and archives technologies—including classroom technology, servers, and service-point application configuration and support.

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"Next Generation Library Publishing Partnership Awarded $2.2m from Arcadia to Improve Scholarly Publishing Infrastructures"

The Educopia Institute has released "Next Generation Library Publishing Partnership Awarded $2.2m from Arcadia to Improve Scholarly Publishing Infrastructures."

Here's an excerpt:

Through this project, Educopia and its partner institutions—California Digital Library (CDL), Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), Longleaf Services, LYRASIS, and Strategies for Open Science (Stratos)—will provide new publishing pathways for authors, editors, and readers by advancing and integrating open source publishing infrastructure to provide robust support for library publishing.

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Software Engineer at Emory University

Emory University is recruiting a Software Engineer.

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Emory University Libraries is looking for a Software Engineer to help initiate and implement creative and impactful uses of technology. Reporting to the Lead Software Engineer in the Library Technology and Digital Strategies department, the Software Engineer will contribute to the development of digital library services, including the institution’s preservation repository.

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"Open Up: A Survey on Open and Non-anonymized Peer Reviewing"

Lonni Besançon et al. have self-archived "Open Up: A Survey on Open and Non-anonymized Peer Reviewing."

Here's an excerpt:

We present a discussion and analysis regarding the benefits and limitations of open and non-anonymized peer review based on literature results and responses to a survey on the reviewing process of alt.chi, a more or less open-review track within the CHI conference, the predominant conference in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). This track currently is the only implementation of an open-peer-review process in the field of HCI while, with the recent increase in interest in open science practices, open review is now being considered and used in other fields. We collected 30 responses from alt.chi authors and reviewers and found that, while the benefits are quite clear and the system is generally well liked by alt.chi participants, they are reluctant to see it used in other venues. This concurs with a number of recent studies that suggest a divergence between support for a more open review process and its practical implementation.

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Software Engineer at Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University is recruiting a Software Engineer.

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Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries has an immediate opening for a Software Engineer to support our archives, special collections, and institutional repository services. Top goals are to ensure system reliability and data integrity, and to improve business processes and IT practices

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"cOAlition S Appoints Johan Rooryck as Open Access Champion"

cOAlition S has released "cOAlition S Appoints Johan Rooryck as Open Access Champion."

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In his role as Open Access Champion, Rooryck will represent cOAlition S in meetings with external stakeholders including funders, researchers, librarians, and publishers. He will present Plan S, listen to concerns, and develop plans to help participants adapt to a changing publishing landscape. He will also advise cOAlition S on the ways to implement the transition to full and immediate Open Access as smoothly as possible. . . .

He is Professor of French Linguistics at Leiden University in the Netherlands. . . .

He has over 20 years' experience as an editor, first as the Executive Editor of Lingua (Elsevier) and since 2015 as the founder and Editor in Chief of the Fair Open Access journal Glossa: a journal of general linguistics. He is President of the Quality Open Access Market (QOAM), founding member and President of the Fair Open Access Alliance (FOAA), founding member of Mathematics in Open Access (MathOA) and Psychology in Open Access (PsyOA), founding member and President of Linguistics in Open Access (LingOA), and Member of the Academia Europaea.

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VR/AR/Immersive Technology Developer/Programmer at Hamilton College

Hamilton College is recruiting a VR/AR/Immersive Technology Developer/Programmer.

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This individual will work collaboratively across disciplines supporting faculty and staff as they integrate VR/AR/Immersive Technology learning experiences utilizing our Educational Goals such as Aesthetic Discernment, Creativity, and Disciplinary Practice (see Hamilton’s full Educational Goals at https://www.hamilton.edu/academics/catalogue/educational-goals-and-curriculum).

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"Citation Advantage for Open Access Articles in European Radiology"

Rayan H. M. Alkhawtani et al. have published "Citation Advantage for Open Access Articles in European Radiology" in .

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The results of our study show that open access articles in European Radiology are significantly and independently more frequently cited than subscription access articles. This can be explained by the facts that open access by definition does not require a journal subscription or payment of a fee to read the article, open access offers potentially faster and easier article access even to subscribers because there is no need to login, and open access articles are also published in PubMed Central, which improves article visibility. Altogether, this may increase the number of article reads and subsequent citations.

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Senior User Interface Design Engineer at University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is recruiting a Senior User Interface Design Engineer.

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We are seeking a Senior User Interface Design Engineer who will be responsible for planning and creating high-quality, efficient user interfaces across the library’s web presence. The person in this position would help establish best practices and work closely with user experience and accessibility specialists, designers, developers, stakeholders, and partners to create interfaces that support the library’s websites and applications.

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"A Crisis in "Open Access": Should Communication Scholarly Outputs Take 77 Years to Become Open Access?"

Abbas Ghanbari Baghestan et al. have published ";A Crisis in "Open Access": Should Communication Scholarly Outputs Take 77 Years to Become Open Access?" in SAGE Open.

Here's an excerpt:

This study diachronically investigates the trend of the "open access" in the Web of Science (WoS) category of "communication." To evaluate the trend, data were collected from 184 categories of WoS from 1980 to 2017. A total of 87,997,893 documents were obtained, of which 95,304 (0.10%) were in the category of "communication." In average, 4.24% of the documents in all 184 categories were open access. While in communication, it was 3.29%, which ranked communication 116 out of 184. An Open Access Index (OAI) was developed to predict the trend of open access in communication. Based on the OAI, communication needs 77 years to fully reach open access, which undeniably can be considered as “crisis in scientific publishing” in this field. Given this stunning information, it is the time for a global call for "open access" by communication scholars across the world. Future research should investigate whether the current business models of publications in communication scholarships are encouraging open access or pose unnecessary restrictions on knowledge development.

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